Michael

Nice quote mate!

I like how you call it a she

I think this is what'll happen

Yo yo Aikimox! Glad to see you posting here Like i told you before, i still think it's a typo, and it's 1.5 hours. Welcome! we won't close any such threads over here

+1 on Brian's suggestion and the welcome I've recently sold my R2 since I was offered too good of a price to pass on and it's a pain to wait on the m18x but I think it will be worth it eventually. I'd push for money back

LMAO, oh man thank you for that !

heh, guess upgrading parts in that rig is a pain Nice experiment

This is what pushed us to start T|I, it's just ain't fun anymore. It feels like Stalin's Russia where you gotta be careful what you say before they shoot you down

LOL No I don't. It's disappointing nevertheless

Interesting beast. Didn't like the lack of numpad...

Great! Glad to hear you solved it. I was afraid it was a hardware issue tbh

Good luck! Report back with results

One more thing you could try is the 'last known good config' from the f8 menu. I know it helped me a couple of times in the past.

I sold mine a while ago... I know I saw those on eBay. I'll see if I can find there Edit: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Dell-XPS-Laptop-Sleeve-14-15-Leather-CD-Case_W0QQitemZ390040021199QQcategoryZ38284QQvarZQQcmdZViewItem That one?

Ooops Sorry about that!

Welcome mate! Spread the word and be sure to check out the site as well

sure but half a mm shim is nothing compared to the pressure applied but the retention mod. It literally torn my motherboard when i overtightened the screws last time

i still got a gut feeling it will improve temps... wish i had tried that before i sold the R2 i think that the extra pressure would compensate for the double thermal compound layering (top and bottom of the copper shim)

thanks to Stam i am back to my System Of a Down addiction. Currently listening to Ego Brain

wow, that sucks. I sold my AW but i really wanted to try a copper mod on the CPU. My logic is that since the contact between the CPU and the heatsink is not very good, we do retention mods, so why not put a thin copper shim between the cpu and the heatsink ? That will increase the pressure between the heatsink, the shim and the CPU thus allowing for better heat transfer and since copper is an excellent heat conductor i believe that might work and if it does it is much safer than the retention mod (1 mobo + 1 940xm already garbadged)

nice! how are your temps ?

my favorite game atm! can't wait for the third!

Good thread stam! Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple They've been my favorites lately!

Ouch! Thats 5 months from now! But yeah, I figure once it comes out the sales of R3 will drop substantially so it makes sense for Dell to milk the R3 as much as possible before releasing the beast

the hoops we need to jump through to get to the advertised performance